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title: "High Fidelity"
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# High Fidelity

**Brand:** nick hornby
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    better each time
  

*by M***A on Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2024*

I have probably read this book three times before and it always makes me laugh. Glad I finally got a copy for my phone. It’s in my top five favorite books.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Wise And Funny, If A Trifle Pat
  

*by B***M on Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2009*

Rob Fleming would be pushing 50 today, a sobering thought for those of us who delighted in his arrested adolescence as presented in "High Fidelity", Nick Hornby's 1995 breakout novel."I want to go back to 1979 and start all over again", is how Rob puts it to us late in the story, and it's not just bell-bottom nostalgia he's thinking of - though you do get that, in a hilariously sent-up way. Its the menu of options that have since become closed to him, especially regarding love. Rob has just been ditched by his latest love, and he spends the first thirty pages going back to his youth recalling past dumping dames from his first kiss to his last roll in the hay.He also is stuck in a dead-end job, selling old LPs at a tiny North London store called Championship Vinyl, where most of his day is spent listening to his two employees argue over whether the Righteous Brothers or Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels did the better version of "Little Latin Lupe Lu". If you care anything at all about pop music and its various offshoots over the last 50 years, you will find plenty of recognition comedy in "High Fidelity". For others, the send-up of nerdy one-upsmanship translates easy enough for laughter.For most people, "High Fidelity" the book will be used to compare with "High Fidelity" the movie. The latter is a good one, definitely making my Top Five All Time John Cusack Movies list, but I wonder if the novel will similarly be on my Top Five Nick Hornby Novels in a few years' time. Not that "High Fidelity" isn't splendid company - it just goes on for a while longer than it needs to, and its narration seems a bit self-aware for someone whose life is supposed to be such a mess. Suffice it to say I don't want women thinking Rob is a typical male loser - he's a little too clever and sympathetic.The novel does score points over the movie in some departments - Rob visits his parents in one chapter, and gets roped into a neighbor's wine party that brings out his self-pitying best. At one point, dragged to see a movie, he sees another young man in a similar predicament. The young man smiles sheepishly at Rob, who struggles to swallow down his disgust.That gets at the heart of the message of "High Fidelity", that Rob's problem is one of snobbish selfishness, a desire to see himself as too important to accept the reality of his life for what it is. His relationship with ex Laura is not one of bitter feelings, but a dim sense of being cooped up by social expectations. Finding his way past his own narrow sense of self-satisfaction is the novel's central struggle, and its source of light. It's a common theme with Hornby - the main character in "About A Boy" later on will also need to get past his ideal of "island living" to find what it is about life that's really worth living for.I like the message well enough. What I like more are the snappy one-liners. Maybe there's too many of them, and maybe Laura feels a bit too much like an echo of Rob's narration. But Hornby's often-unremarked gift for plot structure is well in evidence, and try not being entertained by it all the first time round."I get letters from young men, always young men, in Manchester and Glasgow and Ottawa, young men who seem to spend a disproportionate amount of their time looking for deleted Smiths singles and "ORIGINAL NOT RERELEASED" underlined Frank Zappa albums," Rob says of his clientele. "They're as close to being mad as makes no difference."Paying Rob a call may seem mad to him, but it makes a whole lot of sense where "High Fidelity" is concerned.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    An Entertaining, Yet Thoughtful Read
  

*by R***T on Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2013*

This is a good read. I wanted to read this because I loved the movie version starring John Cusak and Jack Black. I was surprised to find the the book's narration takes place in England and not the USA, but the characters are even more entertaining than in the movie.The writing is insightful, and as you read you can feel with the character as he recovers from a lost love and experiences the joy and uncertainty of finding it again. I have always enjoyed books that make me think about my own life because I identify with the characters, and this book does the trick. You will feel joy, uncertainty, a lover's sorrow, and also gain insight into some of life's major events. I have the book on my Kindle Fire, and I have highlighted about 30 passages to reread and think about. This is one of the rare books that you will want to read a second time.If you are a music lover, you will also gain some great musical insights, and quite a few new songs to audition,  just by reading the dialogue.Highly recommended!

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